A prevenção da diabetes por meio de cartilha digital

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way society as a whole experiences health problems. There has been both support and resistance to the discourse and programs designed to combat the spread of the virus, highlighting the importance of epidemiological surveillance and rapid response to the health crisis. This resistance raises the urgent need to consider how education has contributed to preventing morbidities to which we are all subject, especially in a context where the population has followed a pattern of increasing life expectancy, making chronic diseases more complex, and where public resources are scarce. Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) represent conditions that develop over the course of a lifetime, are not transmitted from one person to another, and are often associated with risk factors such as a sedentary lifestyle, poor diet, smoking, and alcohol abuse. Therefore, it is urgent to find ways to intensify the prevention of NCDs. The purpose of this Final Project is to contribute to this by developing a digital primer to disseminate knowledge about diabetes (one of the NCDs) in a straightforward and accessible way for adults, the main early victims of NCDs.